The Pizza Triangle
- Monica Vitti: Adelaide
- Marcello Mastroianni: Oreste
- Giancarlo Giannini: Nello
- Marisa Merlini: Adelaide's sister
Jealousy in Italian ( dramma della gelosia ) is an Italian comedy with melodramatic triangle and black-humored undertones, created in 1970. Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni and Giancarlo Giannini play, directed by Ettore Scola. Mastroianni was awarded to the film festival in Cannes in 1970 the award for the best male role.
Action
The film takes place in Rome and begins with a frame story, in which the simple, 45 -year-old bricklayer Oreste is on trial. He has a newly married couple attacked: The Adelaide florist killed with scissors and the pizza maker Nello injured. A long flashback tells how it came about. Oreste resulted in poor circumstances a monotonous life with a much older woman and her children from her first marriage. One day he got to know Adelaide, kindled for them and left the former partner. With Adelaide he lived for a while first in seventh heaven.
Orestes relationship with Adelaide made him forget everything around him. The celebration evening discussions in the Communist Party, whose member he is, he was not listening. At a demonstration he met Nello. After Nello presented his girlfriend, began Adelaide and Orestes new friend behind his back a relationship. Your cover-up, he saw through after some time. After a bitter dispute and injuries it tried the three having a ménage à trois. This, however, did not work. The men put Adelaide to choose between them. Because they could not decide, they first tried a suicide, after which they took refuge in a relationship with a wealthy but uncouth manufacturers of meat products. It was not quite happy. After a suicide attempt Nellos she returned to him, and they marry. Oreste, eaten with jealousy, was about to be a ragged, unemployed vagabonds. He ran to the pair on the way, as they wanted to set off on a honeymoon. It came to the fateful attack, for Oreste now because of diminished responsibility a reduced prison sentence of five years receives.
Scola's intention
Ettore Scola explained that he had with this film want to investigate how the messages of consumer advertising, television, photo of novels and comic books, which he called " bourgeois " as conceived all, be taken up and imitated in the lower classes. In Marxist diction he said: " The exploited classes while still offering their own traditions, their own culture. " As a replacement they would participate in a middle-class subculture.
Reviews
Il Messaggero di Roma said: " To the well- matched director and the extremely unerring staging, not just what the silk dialogue, but also in terms of psychological opposites, is an excellent acting performance adds. " The filmdienst said, Scola had " abandoned to their comedic temperament and achieved so brilliantly characterized types " the performer. The criticism was praise for Mastroianni, but less for the film as a whole, which would merely entertain, instead of denouncing " false appearances". The individual scenes themselves are brilliant, would but held together by any overarching plot: " It has its fun fizzles out suddenly. " For Positif was " angry satire ", the " bitter and farcical time image " a " brilliant piece of cinema " with impulsive characters, dialogues and natural images, and an original narrative. But the comedy will not be granted it, to please the "serious" critics, because they tend to marketable entertainment.
Vermilye (1994 ) argued, Mastroianni keep as lively but headless figure the story together, Vitti play brilliantly, and Giannini wearing a pitiful face. It does not always succeed Scola, the plot to tell liquid, but with more subtle parody and angry cunning. In the Guide of the film praised Jean Tulard (2005) the humor, the obligations of everyday scenes, from an ironic and self-indulgence of the figures would be given by three exceptional actors.